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From Wow to How: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud

Thank you to those of you who joined us on Tuesday, November 15th for “From Wow to How 2: Virtual Desktops, Networking and the Cloud” webinar.  I was excited to hear Citrix and Microsoft experts discussing the role of public, personal and private clouds, the power of virtual desktops and ways to provide a single point of authentication for users to securely access ALL applications, ...

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App Streaming – Custom app dev guidelines

I received an interesting inquiry recently - we are writing applications specifically to be run under Citrix App Streaming and we want to make sure we don't do things that will cause complications at runtime.  Can you tell us what to avoid in programming so we can ensure that our applications work well with Citrix Application Streaming?What a nice way to word this!  Very positive.  ...

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Cloud Computing vs. Timesharing

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Have we come full circle? What is Cloud Computing anyway? Citrix recently sponsored the Cloud Computing Pavilion at Oracle Open World 2010 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. I engaged in many interesting conversations, but the one that was interesting and yet funny at the same time was with a Gentleman that walked up to the booth and asked what Cloud Computing was.After ...

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Oracle Open World 2010

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More from the floorIf you missed Oracle Open World 2010, you can still discover the excitement generated with Citrix NetScaler and Platform-as-a-Service. We had a presentation running in the booth, you can download it here. Citrix sponsored the Cloud Computing Pavilion which was a great opportunity for us. I think the award for the best idea to draw leads goes to the company ...

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NetScaler and Oracle PaaS

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Transparent Scalablity for PaaSI hope you had a chance to see the keynote by Simon Crosby at Oracle Open World yesterday. The key takeaway it that the combined solution of Citrix NetScaler and the Oracle PaaS Platform provides fully transparent scalability of any PaaS application. Key integration points are:Transparent application and infrastructure monitoring NetScaler application visiblity enables monitoring of the application at both the infrastructure ...

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The Cloud is Open – See How It Stacks Up

One of the most exciting things I'm looking forward to in the Citrix booth (#1219) at VMworld this week in San Francisco is the demonstration of OpenStack integrated cloud management and orchestration on XenServer, using XenCenter as the console.OpenStack is open source cloud computing management and orchestration software. It enables cloud providers and enterprises to build highly scalable, easily deployable cloud infrastructures. It includes ...

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Xen and a Theory of RHEL-evance

It's a fast-moving world. I turn my back for a moment to log onto my XenDesktop, and before you know it, the Planet turns to KVM for Cloud Virtualization. Suddenly all those Xen, VMware and Hyper-V users must have switched to KVM overnight! Impressive.I quickly check the XenServer download stats and see that the needle is still rapidly rising... about 3,000 ...

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Xen is Dead, Long Live Xen (Remix)

It's year end, and some virtualization beat writers are desperate for something to tempt eyeballs and hopefully lift their click-through rates. Anything for a bit of cheer. And since real news is lacking, and research and analysis are no longer required, why not make something up? Now, if you're lacking any creativity, have no research whatsoever to base your work on, ...

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Xen.org Announces Release of Xen 3.4 Hypervisor

Xen.org is pleased to announce the latest release of the Xen hypervisor, the open source industry standard for virtualization. Xen.org is a global community of independent and industry developers, university researchers, users, and virtualization gurus who regularly contribute to the shared design, development, support, and improvement of the Xen hypervisor platform.The new release, Xen 3.4, furthers the vision of creating a powerful, efficient, and ubiquitous ...

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